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The Search

There Is No Path For Me, No God, No Guide

Ianthe H. Hoskins

The symbolic up-hill path in the search for wisdom, and a photo of Ianthe Hoskins

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Editorial Note:

Ms. Ianthe H. Hoskins, a British theosophist and

author, was a dedicated student of H.P. Blavatsky’s.

A woman with a bright sense of humour, she was almost

100 years old when she died in 2001. Ianthe Hoskins’ last

book was “Reflections on Time, Duration and Immortality”,

from which we reproduce the poem below. It suggests that a

truth-seeker must be prepared to face obstacles, especially

if he does not want to delude himself along the way.

(CCA)

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There is no path for me, no God, no guide;
I fling away from light and leading hand;
I have no sword, no staff, no friend beside:
Alone, unarmed, I seek an unknown land.

With bruised fingers and with bleeding feet,
Alone I tread, while round me and before
Foe upon foe assails me, whom I greet
As friends to lead me to the unknown shore.

Give me no counsel, proffer me no aid,
No star in my impenetrable night;
Alone, alone my journey has to be made
Through the here-darkness to the yonder Light.

So shall the pilgrim know from whence he came,
The spark be one with the eternal flame. [1]